I have a couple of new short stories on my Freebies and Excerpts page. They haven’t been published (perhaps with good reason) but I’ve made them available to you — the few, the proud, the followers of this dark corner of the blogosphere. The new stories are Magnum and The Duct Cleaner. Give ’em a read and let me know what you think.

Did you get a new e-reader for Christmas? Need to populate it with something a little kinky? Well, you can download Swallowtail for free on December 26 and 27. In this cold season, enjoy the warmth of a little BDSM erotica.

All of the Demonsong novels — Incubus, The Succubus and the Seminarian, and The Devil’s Own — are now available in a box set, which can be found here.

Even Kat and Damian, two sex demons who operate beyond any sense of morality, are governed by the quirks of fate. So when a half demon, seminarian, and a pair of rogue angels are thrown into the mix, visiting sin upon the unsuspecting becomes ever more complicated.

It dawned on me as I embarked on planning a new BDSM series that there is one exceedingly rare demographic that is astoundingly over-represented in erotica.

To wit: there are 536 (give or take) billionaires in the US, and yet this near-mythical creature features in an astounding 17,560 erotica titles on Amazon. By comparison, there are 457 results for lawyer + erotica and only 60 for plumber + erotica.

Now, it’s easy to understand how some meek mouse might tremble in submissive yearning for an intense and invariably maladjusted billionaire; less easy to understand how that same mouse might submit to a plumber or pipefitter. I would argue that the latter might make for better fiction, at least in terms of exploring the sub’s motivations. I would argue further that the plumber might have more innate dominance going for him (or her) without the buckets of cash with which to unnerve and overwhelm a prospective sub.

And so I decided to steer well clear of the well-heeled and wealthy. The old slap and tickle might well be happening in mansions and estates across the land, but it would seem that most of it happens in that postwar bungalow or apartment next door.

It’s time to free the fictional Dom(me) from the tyranny of the billionaire. We are, after all, the 99%.

When the succubus Kat returns from her self-imposed exile with a former seminarian (and lover) in tow, she fully expects that there will be some difficult adjustments. How could joining a household that already contains an incubus and a half-demon possibly be otherwise?

An already challenging situation is soon aggravated by the machinations of a pair of angels with their own mysterious agenda. It quickly becomes apparent that there is more afoot than a simple skirmish between the forces of good and evil.

Bedtime Reading for Libertines, a new collection of short stories, is available on Amazon. This collection explores the quirky side of erotica with stories that feature:

* the recipient of anonymous liaison in a hotel utility closet
* an orgasm salesperson plying her trade in suburbia
* a woman who goes to unusual lengths for fresh meat
* a busy professional woman who wants to outsource her sex life
* the story of a lifeguard’s first time

The draft of the third volume of the Demonsong series is now done! It came as a bit of a surprise to see that all the scenes had a status of draft rather than outline. Now for the endless cycle of edits. It’s a tedious process but rewarding at the same time — filling in the blanks, tightening up the prose. Depending on how everything goes, I’m hoping for a launch in the spring of 2015.